Materials Syntheses : A Practical Guide

-Porous Materials; Organically Modified Monolithic Silica Aerogels; Controlling Size and Morphology of Zeolite L; Zeolite A and ZK-4; Mesostructured Silica Thin Films; Porous Silica Gel by Acid Leaching of Metakaolin.-Layered Materials; Zirconia-Pillared Clays; Montmorillonites with mixed aluminum-lanthanide oxide pillars; Birnessite-Type Manganese Oxide by Redox Precipitation.-Carbon; Templated Carbon from Pyrolysis of Pyrene in Pillared Clay Matrices; Fiberous Carbon from Sepiolite Clay and Propylene. -Nanoparticles; Nanoscale Magnesium Oxide; Copper Nanoparticles in Silica; Copper Nanocrystals; Colloidal Dispersion of Gold Nanoparticles; Nanostructured Pt-doped Tin Oxide Films; Assembly of TOPO-Capped Silver Nanoparticles to Multilayered Films.-Inorganic Gels; Octaphenyloctasilsesquioxane and Polyphenylsilsesquioxane for Nanocomposites; Polysilsesquicarbodiimide Xerogels; Monolithic tin-doped silica glass.-Organic Materials and Polymers; Polyaniline - A Conducting Polymer.-Metal Oxides and Sulfides; Sonochemically Prepared Molybdenum Sulfide; Aerosol Spray Synthesis of Porous Molybdenum Sulfide Powder; Doped Manganites; Lithium Manganese Oxide Prepared by Flux Methods.